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Red Hat JBoss Web Server Update RHSA-2020-3303:01 Critical DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial announcement regarding Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 concerning significant vulnerabilities and their implications.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat Native library.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 10 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* tomcat: multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-13935) * tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS service pack Red Hat JBoss Web Server HTTP request smuggling Important security impact

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1935 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13935 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6:
Source: tomcat7-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.src.rpm tomcat8-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat7-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-jsvc-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-lib-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-log4j-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-selinux-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat7-webapps-7.0.70-41.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-el-2.2-api-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-javadoc-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-jsvc-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-lib-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-log4j-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-selinux-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm tomcat8-webapps-8.0.36-45.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7:
Source:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3303-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3303
Issue date: 2020-08-04

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 andRHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS service pack Red Hat JBoss Web Server HTTP request smuggling Important security impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 - noarch

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1806835 - CVE-2020-1935 tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling

1857024 - CVE-2020-13935 tomcat: multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame could lead to DoS

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